Speed Skating ISU Allround & Sprint World Championships 2022

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Speed Skating ISU Allround & Sprint World Championships 2022

 

Hamar (NOR) - 3 March 2022 - 6 March 2022 

 

 

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[Dennis 712]

 won't compete in next week's World Championships in  Hamar as they can't fly to Norway due to travel restrictions. This will mainly have a significant impact on the sprint championships where Russians on both the male and female side were among the title favorites.

[Orangehair43 251]

On 2/26/2022 at 3:28 PM, Dennis said:

 won't compete in next week's World Championships in  Hamar as they can't fly to Norway due to travel restrictions. This will mainly have a significant impact on the sprint championships where Russians on both the male and female side were among the title favorites.

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1119834/nsf-calls-russia-belarus-ban
Belarus looks set to be banned as well

[Dennis 712]

3 minutes ago, Orangehair43 said:

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1119834/nsf-calls-russia-belarus-ban
Belarus looks set to be banned as well

It's sad that athletes suffer from what their governments are doing, but understandable in this case. The impact of Belarus being banned on the tournament is not really big though.

[heywoodu 15,135]

On 2/26/2022 at 4:28 PM, Dennis said:

 won't compete in next week's World Championships in  Hamar as they can't fly to Norway due to travel restrictions. This will mainly have a significant impact on the sprint championships where Russians on both the male and female side were among the title favorites.

Can't they rent a boat?  

[phelps 7,670]

2 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Can't they rent a boat?  

I guess it's more complicated than that... 

[intoronto 5,638]

 

[Belle 975]

 Nils Van Der Poel to retire after this season. 
 

 

https://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/a/dnBrgB/os-hjalten-nils-van-der-poel-lagger-ner-sin-elitsatsning

[heywoodu 15,135]

16 hours ago, Belle said:

 Nils Van Der Poel to retire after this season. 
 

 

https://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/a/dnBrgB/os-hjalten-nils-van-der-poel-lagger-ner-sin-elitsatsning

As expected, to be honest

 

A shame, but he very much seems like someone who would retire as soon as he reached his goal, in order to go straight to whatever next goal he has in life  

[dcro 10,210]

I am confused. 10000m is still a part of the all-around? Wasn't there a push to remove it recently? They are making it hard to follow.